Press Release

New matchmaking functionality intelligently selects the lowest
latency AWS region to launch each game session

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 21, 2017--
Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN),
today announced that Amazon GameLift now supports games built with any
C++ or C# game engine, including Amazon Lumberyard, Unreal Engine,
Unity, and custom developed engines. With Amazon GameLift, developers
can quickly scale their dedicated multiplayer game servers to support
millions of players using AWS’s highly available cloud infrastructure,
without investing thousands of hours in upfront engineering. AWS also
announced that Amazon GameLift includes new matchmaking functionality
that intelligently selects the closest available game server based on
each player’s location, giving players the lowest possible latency by
leveraging AWS’s broad global footprint. Game developers only pay for
the compute, storage, and bandwidth resources their games use, with no
upfront commitments or monthly contracts. To get started with Amazon
GameLift, visit aws.amazon.com/gamelift.

Expectations for multiplayer games have never been higher. Gamers demand
short wait times to connect to games, imperceptible server latency, and
bulletproof stability. To meet these expectations, game developers have
needed to invest thousands of hours of engineering to build systems that
manage server infrastructure and scale capacity. Amazon GameLift is a
managed service for deploying, operating, and scaling dedicated game
servers for session-based multiplayer games. With Amazon GameLift,
developers simply add the Amazon GameLift SDK to their games, upload
their game servers, and launch the service in the AWS Management
Console. The service then automatically deploys game servers across the
AWS Cloud and starts connecting players to games. Amazon GameLift’s new
matchmaking functionality continually scans available game servers
around the world and matches them against player requests to join games.
If low-latency game servers are not available, the service’s autoscaling
feature can automatically start one, hundreds, or even thousands of game
servers across AWS’s global regions. Autoscaling also eliminates wasted
capacity by stopping unused game servers in minutes, lowering Amazon
GameLift costs by an average of 50 percent. With Amazon GameLift,
developers can be confident that on day one that their multiplayer games
can scale to support millions of players, while maintaining the high
performance gamers expect.

“The majority of leading game companies use AWS, and our customers have
consistently asked us for an easier way to deploy, operate, and scale
dedicated game servers for their multiplayer games,” said Chris Dury,
General Manager, Amazon GameLift. “We built Amazon GameLift to save
developers time and money while delivering world-class experiences for
their players. We are excited to now offer Amazon GameLift’s benefits to
more game developers by adding support for any C++ and C# game engine.”

Gearbox Software, the award-winning developer of blockbuster franchises
including Battleborn, Borderlands, and Brothers in Arms, is beginning to
deploy Amazon GameLift. “Now that Amazon GameLift is available for all
game engines, we’re excited about its potential to help us deliver the
lightning-fast, seamless online multiplayer experiences our fans
demand,” said Neil Johnson, Technical Director at Gearbox Software.

Independent developer Proletariat uses Amazon GameLift to quickly deploy
and manage their multiplayer game servers. “For the team at Proletariat,
the choice was pretty simple – hire a team of engineers to spend months
building our own cloud infrastructure, or launch our game on Amazon
GameLift in a couple of days,” said Seth Sivak, CEO of Proletariat.
“Amazon GameLift made it easy for us to inexpensively give our fans
world-class online experiences.”

South Korea-based AON Interactive, a mobile game studio, is adopting
Amazon GameLift for their next game codenamed, Project Road-99. A
real-time, multiplayer racing game, Project Road-99 lets players
create and share their own tracks and compete with their
friends. “Amazon GameLift is helping AON develop fast, stable
multiplayer experiences for our players on mobile devices in any region
of the world, with incredibly low latency,” said BR Choi, CEO of AON
Interactive. “Amazon GameLift’s ability to smartly match players and
instantly scale capacity will help AON give our players the best
possible experience, while saving us time and money.”

Developers can start using Amazon GameLift using the AWS Management
Console or by downloading the SDK at aws.amazon.com/gamelift.
Amazon GameLift is available in the US East (N. Virginia), US West
(Oregon), EU Central (Frankfurt), EU West (Ireland), Asia Pacific South
(Mumbai), Asia Pacific Northeast (Seoul and Tokyo), Asia Pacific
Southeast (Singapore) and South America East (São Paulo) Regions, with
additional AWS Regions coming soon.

About Amazon Web Services

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